Short Bio

Francesco Caneschi (1990) was born in Firenze (IT). His PhD project, financed by FCT and developed at FAUP and at DIDA, is entitled: “Glocal Tools: Temporary actions in Urbanism and Architecture. Experiments in socio-spatial coproduction”. He was an Arquia Fundation intern at Aires Mateus Associados. He participated, as a researcher selected by the Rectorate of the University of Aveiro, in the Campus Mobility Master Plan. He obtained his Master Degree in Architecture at FAUP in 2018 and he finished his Bachelor in Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of Firenze in 2016. In 2014 he co-founded the collective ab-USO, with which he developed several projects in public and common spaces. He participated as participant and later as assistant in various projects by Orizzontale, that are currently a study case of the Glocal Tools research. He's involved in the organization of the archive of Titti Maschietto, co-founder of the radical architecture group UFO.

Research interests: radical architecture and incremental urbanism.